Oh man. I'm so glad you asked this. It's something I brought up many times as the most bizarre part of everything I went through.

While there was a bridge of flesh going between the tip of my nose and forehead there was obviously still nerves through that flesh - and yes my brain still associated those nerves geographically with my forehead.

It was amazing. Basically I would watch a nurse apply ointment to the strip of flesh and I would visually see her move her hand up and down in front of my nose, but feel her stroking my forehead left to right. Truly a bizarre sensation.

Either way, now that is no longer an issue as the nerves in the flesh on the tip of my nose aren't attached to anything I suspect those nerves will die and the ones in my nose will grow through it.

Not at all. As I've said in other places, the dog was just doing its job, it was behind two gates so it's not like it's out and about attacking people, the only reason it got me was because I was a friend that let myself in. All in all it was an unforeseeable accident that no one is to blame for.

A friend of mine has been looking after a dog for about 18mths. I don't honestly know the story there. I suspect the dog didn't come from a great background and they're now caring for it. Either way he's clearly a good guard dog. I've only met him once before and that time they hurried him away so I've never really spent time with it. I don't even know what kind of dog it is (I've since learned it was a Rhodesian Ridgeback - a BIG bugger) and couldn't even tell you what it looks like as that was the second time I met him and that time he was on the end of my nose.

It's been a while since I had been to my mates and I forgot about this dog. I heard some scuffling over the other side of the gate and I'm used to them always owning cute little terriers so I popped my head over and was greeted by him jumping up to the fence and grabbing my nose.

tldr: never assume it's just cute puppies on the other side of a fence before popping your face over.

A friend of mine has been looking after a dog for about 18mths. I don't honestly know the story there. I suspect the dog didn't come from a great background and they're now caring for it. Either way he's clearly a good guard dog. I've only met him once before and that time they hurried him away so I've never really spent time with it. I don't even know what kind of dog it is and couldn't even tell you what it looks like as today was the second time I met him and this time he was on the end of my nose.

It's been a while since I had been to my mates and I forgot about this dog. I heard some scuffling over the other side of the gate and I'm used to their cute little dogs so I popped my head over and was greeted by him jumping up to the fence and grabbing my nose. I'm just waiting now to see what the plastic surgeon has to say. I'm in no pain but I'm a little worried about my *cough* beautiful face :(. I won't even get surgery until tomorrow earliest.

tldr: never assume it's just cute puppies on the other side of a fence before popping your face over.